A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.